Queering Wolverine in Comics and Fanfiction - A Fastball Special

Queering Wolverine in Comics and Fanfiction: A Fastball Special interrogates the ways in which the Marvel Comics character Wolverine is a queer hero and examines his representation as an open, vulnerable, and kinship-oriented, queer hero in both comics and fanfiction.

List of contents

Introduction: A Fastball Special; 1: Wolverine and the Open Body; 2: Wolverine and Queer Kinships; 3: Queering Wolverine in Fan Fiction; Conclusion: Wolverine in Queer Time; Bibliography

About the author

Christopher Michael Roman is Professor of English at Kent State University and specializes in Comics Studies and the Graphic Novel, LGBTQ+ Literature, and Queer Theory. His comics studies work has been published in the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics and IJOCA. He is also author of Domestic Mysticism in Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich (2005) and Queering Richard Rolle (2017). He is the co-editor of the collection Medieval Futurity (2021).

Summary

Queering Wolverine in Comics and Fanfiction: A Fastball Special interrogates the ways in which the Marvel Comics character Wolverine is a queer hero and examines his representation as an open, vulnerable, and kinship-oriented, queer hero in both comics and fanfiction.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Michael Roman
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032120157
• ISBN: 978-1-032-12015-7
• No. of pages: 102
• Weight: 140 g
• Series: Routledge Focus on Gender, Sexuality, and Comics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; History, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Literature & literary studies, Humanities, Gender studies, gender groups, Gay & Lesbian studies, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics